On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote:
>
> On 17-Mar-02 Curtis Clark wrote:
> > At 04:45 PM 3/16/02, Doug Ewell wrote:
> >>But right away that definition includes not only Shavian, Tengwar,
> >>Cirth, Klingon, and most of the contents of ConScript, but also
> >>Ethiopic, Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, Gothic, Deseret, and maybe Yi
> >>Syllabics, all of which are already encoded in Unicode.
> >
> > And iirc Cyril and Methodius were people, although their script was based
> > on Greek and continued to evolve.
>
> What about "a script that was invented by one person with the principal
> intention of representing an artificially constructed language"?
> This would include Tengwar, Cirth and Klingon but not any of the other
> above-mentioned cases.
>
> Of course, Tolkien's scripts can be used to write English or other natural
> languages, too, but I strongly feel the author didn't intend Tengwar to replace
> the present Latin alphabet...
>
> Best regards,
> Miikka-Markus Alhonen
>
Monday, March 18, 2002
I know very little about the scripts involved. It seems to me if the
scripts are defined at the same time as the language this might help
in defining the scripts. Something along the lines of: "Any writing
system defined by one or a few individuals concurrent witht their
definition of the language intended to use it." I think it shouldn't
matter if later it were used to write other langauges--unless it became
the main means of writing some long spoken language.
Math is field about which I'm very ignorant. Did Leibniz define calculus
and the means of expressing it at the same time? Is it a langauge?
Esperanto doesn't have its own script does it? Cherokee and English
existed long before Sequoia's script and Deseret so this definition would
exclude them.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
"It is not true that people stop pursuing their dreams because they
grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams." Adapted
from a letter by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The above are purely personal opinions, not necessarily the official
views of any government or any agency of any.
Addresses: Office: Phone: 202 707-9612; Fax: 202 707-0955; US
mail: I.T.S. Sys.Dev.Gp.4, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE,
Washington, D.C. 20540-9334 U.S.A.
Home: Phone: 301 946-7326; US mail: Box 291, Garrett Park, MD 20896.
